Monsanto buys bee-friendly pesticide researcher

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By The Associated Press
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Monsanto Co. said Wednesday it bought a smaller biotech research company that is developing a technology to kill crop pests while protecting the health of bees.

Monsanto, the world's biggest seed company, did not disclose terms of the deal to buy the company, called Beeologics.

Bees are critical plant pollinators, and public concern has swelled over a recent bee pathology called colony collapse disorder. The disorder causes whole hives of bees to die off, cutting the numbers of insects that naturally pollinate important food crops.

It's still unclear what causes colony collapse disorder, but pesticides have been linked to bee deaths.

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[Nihil]

1. Now that isn't good ...

... for anyone or anything (except Monsanto of course) ...
:-(